The stabbing happened at Hardwick Hall in 2012
A man stabbed in the neck with a broken champagne flute at a County Durham hotel lost six pints of blood, a court has been told.
Victim Neil Parsons needed 167 stitches when he was attacked at a lobster festival at the Hardwick Hall Hotel in Sedgefield in April 2012.
Teesside Crown Court heard John Mullen, 50, from Manchester, missed Mr Parsons' carotid artery by millimetres.
Mullen admitted wounding with intent and is due to sentenced on 8 February.
The court was told Mr Parson runs a portable toilet business and was working at the event with his son, who witnessed the attack.
After the incident Mullen, from Kearsley Road, Manchester, fled the country on a false passport and flew to Abu Dhabi and then to Bangkok.
He was eventually arrested in February last year when he arrived in Sofia, Bulgaria, after almost four years on the run.
He was remanded in custody.
